Re: Status Report from Rochester

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

Stupendous Man wrote:
> 

> Several other TASSians have mentioned plans to improve the
> control program -- all of whom are welcome, of course!
>

Will you have time to coordinate these changes?  It would be
better to have one program then six.  The reason is then if 
one person makes an improvement all other users benefit.

There are a few ways to do this

1) "The way Linus works the Linux kernel"
People send Linus changes.  He reads and accepts or rejects
each change or possibly re-writes it himself.  This is the
"one guy in charge" method.  

2) "Anarchy"
A common CVS directory with multiple programmers each
having write access.  A modification of this would be
to only make changes if the rest of the group agrees
it is a "Good Thing".

3) "Code Fork"
Everyone makes a local copy of the code and hacks away.

I'd prefer #1 if Michael would have the time to do it.
If not then #2 is a good way to prevent #3 which will
happen if #1 or #2 does not.

Source Forge may be the answer see
http://sourceforge.net/ 


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